Sunnyvale, CA Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

020 defines them, include green trimmings, grass, weeds, leaves, prunings, branches, dead plants, brush, tree trimmings, dead trees and small pieces of unpainted or untreated wood; the qualifier on wood means painted or chemically treated scraps do not qualify and must be handled as regular solid waste or construction debris instead. The section also ties the size of material a resident can set out to whatever limits are written into the city's current collector franchise agreement, so oversized branches or brush can be refused at the curb until cut down or bundled to the contracted specification.

170(a) requires every single-family responsible party to subscribe to weekly collection of yard trimmings along with recyclable containers, recyclable paper, food scraps and mixed waste, and lets the city require a bigger container if a household's green waste volume outgrows its current service level. 170 rather than that general removal duty. 170(c).